"By factitious air, I mean in general any kind of air which is contained any in other bodies in an unelastic state, an…"

"By fixed air, I mean that particular species of factitious air, which is separated from alcaline substances by soluti…"

"I think we must allow that dephlogisticated air is in reality nothing but dephlogisticated water, or water deprived o…"

"He was the wealthiest of all scholars (savants) and probably also the most scholarly of all the wealthy."

"I never charged or thought of charging Mr. Cavendish with having obtained from Mr. Watt's paper his knowledge of the …"

"It were to be wished, that this noble philosopher would communicate more of his experiments to the world, as he makes…"

"It only remains that I offer very briefly my own estimate of the character of the Philosopher. Morally it was a blank…"

"All that needed for its apprehension, more than the pure intellect, or required the exercise of fancy, imagination, a…"

"His brain seems to have been but a calculating engine; his eyes inlets of vision, not fountains of tears; his hands i…"

"Young people must break machines to learn how to use them; get another made!"